I thought they were definitely setting that up as soon as they mentioned the water. Alas.

Character development!

And they're all so stupidly gullible and awful that Tara, who is almost completely full of shit, is the only one who has a flickering conscience and realizes that kidnapping, decapitation, and wholesale slaughter are wrong. That group was so transparently meat for the grinder, it was almost (not really) sad.

"Where's Judith?" better not be the "Where's Sofia?" of season 4.

It's a really, really pitch black comedy, and I think what unsettled me about the violence when I saw it at a young age is that the movie presents humanity as awful and ugly and stupid and deserving to die (unless you're Pam Grier or young Natalie Portman). Annette Benning's new age hippie character even says that at…

Yeah, fuck Robotech, Mari Iijima's galaxy-saving pop songs in Macross are actually excellent.

Huzzah for Joel Hodgson as Mayor Dewey! ("MAYYYYOOOOOR DEWWWWEYYYY")

Martinez was incredibly stupid to A.) Let the Governor join his group and B.) Not tell his men that the Governor is a killer who should at the very least be watched carefully. He saw this guy mow down his own people with a machine gun, and now he's going to drunkenly needle him about fixing a leaky ceiling? No way he…

Part of Shane's problem was his obsession with Lori and Carl, and Rick was in the way of that. The Governor wouldn't be fighting with Shane for "control" of that family unit, so things might not have escalated between them.

Lauren Cohan's going to be on the Talking Dead next week, so it's safe to bet that SOMEONE in the Greene family is going to die.

Characters seemed to wander in and out of black holes this episode. The camp has what, 30-40 people in it, but no one is around to see the Governor beat Martinez with a golf club, knock him off an RV, and drag him into the zombie pit. In broad daylight! The group in the woods is violently wiped out, and the raiders…

Movies like LoTR or Casino Royale were chosen because they're movies people are actually likely to own on DVD—remember that Rifftrax started before online streaming and VOD, so they were kind of ahead of the curve there. They had to start off with recognizable, attention-grabbing titles that people had heard of and…

I appreciated that he had a card with all of the Governor's atrocities written on it at the ready.

Governor Brian saw a photo of the man in the wheelchair in a military uniform, so yeah.

Considering that the Governor threatened to rape Maggie, had that torture room ready for Michonne, and arranged Andrea's gruesome death, I couldn't feel anything but complete dread when these three new women fell under his "protection." (Hey Lilly, ask Brian how he broke up with his last girlfriend…) YOU IN DANGER,…

Jim Shooter burned in effigy was possibly my favorite anecdote in Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. I cackled out loud.

jesus christ

Nothing says romance like that "Help me, this man is a serial killer" face and posture Dakota has going on.

Anyone else looking forward to the inevitable soul-crushing, "Simon and Marcy"-esque backstory episode explaining the decimation of the Crystal Gems?

Elizabeth Banks was great as Avery, but Jack was totally the kind of guy who has at least two ex wives.